The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 777

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Made

16th March 2005

Laid before Parliament

21st March 2005

Coming into force

11th April 2005

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 7A of Schedule 2 to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987(1), paragraph 6(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988(2), sections 24(2)(c) and (d) and 30(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991(3), sections 5(1)(a) and (p), 189(1), (4) and (5) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(4) and sections 14(3), 113(1) and (2) and 116 of, and paragraphs 1 and 6(1) and (2)(b) of Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992(5) and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(6), hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1987 c. 47; paragraph 7A of Schedule 2 was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 36(10), was continued in force by S.I. 1993/1780 and was amended by the Jobseekers Act 1996 (c. 18), Schedule 2, paragraph 10 and the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16), Schedule 2, paragraph 27.

(2)

1988 c. 41; paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 was continued in force by S.I. 1993/1780 and amended by the Jobseekers Act 1996, Schedule 2, paragraph 18 and the State Pension Credit Act 2002 , Schedule 2, paragraph 29.

(3)

1991 c. 53; section 24 was amended by the Jobseekers Act 1995, Schedule 2, paragraph 21(2) and the State Pension Credit Act 2002, Schedule 2, paragraph 31(a).

(4)

1992 c. 5; section 191 is cited for the definition of “prescribe”.

(5)

1992 c. 14; paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 was amended by the Jobseekers Act 1995, Schedule 2, paragraph 75 and the State Pension Credit Act 2002, Schedule 2, paragraphs 32 and 33; section 116 is cited for the definition of “prescribed”.

(6)

See Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 173(1)(b).